In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, UToledo Health and the Toledo Lucas County Public Library are partnering to screen the documentary film “Wilhemina’s War,” which follows one family’s multigenerational struggle with HIV.
The film screening, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, March 10, at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library main branch in downtown Toledo. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for guests to visit community resource tables.
Released in 2016, “Wilhemina’s War” tells the story of Wilhemina Dixon who lives in South Carolina and cares for her HIV-positive daughter and granddaughter.
For the last two decades, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day has served to highlight the country’s ongoing efforts on HIV prevention, treatment and care among women and girls.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from 2022 shows women accounted for about one in five of the nearly 38,000 newly diagnosed cases of HIV.
The film screening is made possible in part by the UToledo Health Care Clinic and The Ann Wayson Locher Memorial Fund for HIV Care.
